Re: [patch] VAIO irq assignment fix

Ben Greear
2002-01-18T00:30:02Z

Dave Jones wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:35:30PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > No. Could we please integrate this not with ACPI, but with the much more
> > limited "arch/i386/kernel/acpitable.c", which does NOT imply full ACPI,
> > only scanning the tables for information in static format (like the irq
> > routing stuff).
>
> I was under the impression that the Intel ACPI folks had things in
> mind for acpitable.c along the lines of 'rm', in favour of having
> their new interpretor do a "Load, setup, get the hell out" approach
> for those that didn't want it staying around.
>
> Either way, I agree improving our ACPI support is a better solution
> in the long run.

No argument here, but I'd love to use my cardbus NICs in my VAIO
one way or another in the next stable kernel!

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